false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231274351m/7909.jpg 7909 9 Best Friends Forever: There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do--a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person--Betsy-Tacy.</P><P>Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise--a new friend named Tib.</P><P>Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.</P><P> </P> 10931 book 1940 Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, Book 1) total:1041|5:26|4:33|3:18|2:3|1:0| 1041 4411 1309 150 4 4 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 12:39:28 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 07:33:15 -0800 2009 Betsy-Tacy, the first in a long series of books about two (eventually three) young girls growing up in Minnesota in the late nineteenth and early twent...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 23 18:42:46 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 22 07:08:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Mon Oct 22 12:22:27 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 12:32:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 16:50:48 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 10:57:24 -0700 2007
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My beloved aunt dug a dusty old copy of Betsy-Tacy out of her attic for me when I was 4 or 5 years old. From the v...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Sat Mar 22 09:31:36 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 09:39:11 -0700 2008 Betsy-Tacy had a profound effect on my child self's notion of what might be truly important in this world, namely friendship. The events in the Betsy-Tacy books are pretty mundane, unlike those other Minnesota-centric novels I loved as a child (hello, Little House!) but these ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 07:20:03 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 20:50:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Oct 25 20:37:33 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 20:44:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Sep 15 02:16:58 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 18:34:08 -0700 2008 1 You've Got Mail. I found this look at young life a hundred years ago so engrossing that I couldn't stop unt...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 19 14:22:06 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 06:54:30 -0800 2008 10 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 12 10:31:21 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 10:34:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Tue Sep 04 14:11:19 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 14:13:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Sep 28 04:41:18 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 04:41:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 19:30:27 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:28:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 15:29:43 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 09:09:41 -0700 2009

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